Mallari Miller

Composition 2

Professor Stephanie Williams

Thursday, April 27, 2017

Social Media Academic Argument

Social media is a various platform that enable users to connect and share content.

Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are various social media platforms. The surveyors

said that connecting with friends and family, networking, encouragement, keeps a person

updated on a followers life that might be distance, and helps build relationships are all positive

impacts about social media. These platforms allow people to post selfies, statuses and voice their

opinion. Social media has a positive impact because it allows connection with friends and family

across the world, self-representation, and advertising businesses.

Social media can have a negative impact. Cyberbullying, lack of sleep and studying, and

leads to addiction are examples of the negative impact that social media creates. Even though

social media can have a negative impact the positive impact over rules. The positive impact of

social media over rules the negative affect because it helps keep people interacted with similar

interests.

Social media has a positive impact because it allows a person to connect with friends and

family. Your school probably has a page for incoming freshman to chat and get to know one

another before you arrive on campus (Dashevsky, Evan). This means that students can interact

with each other and find some things in common by having a Facebook account. Various forms

of social media allow a person to connect with family and friends if he or she is far away. All of

the methods of communication through social media are easy to use when traveling or

volunteering abroad; just remember you need a Wi-Fi connection to use all of them (Darsch,
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Rebekah). Blogging is used to describe a persons experience about something. Blogging allows

other people to comment on a specific topic and meet new friends. Instagram is a social media

platform that allows a person to share photos, videos, and direct message friends and family.

Snapchat allows a person to post a ten second story video of what he or she is doing. Twitter is

an easy way to connect with friends and family because it allows a person to post a thought

under one-hundred forty characters. Social media platforms are great to connect with friends and

family, but advertising has a strong impact on social media.

Social media and advertising go hand in hand. Businesses can increase customers by

advertising on social medias. Businesses can post interesting facts on social media. New

businesses can gain various benefits about how to reach customers and if their product or service

will be popular. Two surveyors said that they like social media advertisements. Nine surveyors

said that it depends on what is being advertised on social media platforms. This number is on the

low side but may rise due to time. Starbucks, Levis, and Target all parlayed their Facebook

presence into greater market awareness, leading to improved branding and higher revenue

(Evans, David). This means that by advertising on social media these companies have

transformed into better. Social media advertising helps businesses find new potential clients by

using users own shared information to identify interest.

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Works Cited

Dashevsky, Evan. "Apps to Help Jumpstart Your College Social Life." PC Magazine, Sept. 2016,

pp. 148-151. EBSCOhost, 0-search.ebscohost.com.iii-server.ualr.edu/login.aspx?

direct=true&db=a9h&AN=117743808&site=eds-live.

Evans, David W. "Let's Be Social: Making Facebook Connections Work." Ophthalmology Times,

vol. 42, no. 4, 3/1/2017, p. 26. EBSCOhost, 0-search.ebscohost.com.iii-

server.ualr.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=121634802&site=eds-live